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The list of corporations affected by data breaches in 2014 continues to lengthen. UPS announced a breach a few weeks ago; eBay announced a breach in the Spring, and we still have not heard the last of the breach that affected Target at the end of last year. Brian Krebs’s cybersecurity blog Krebson...

By Bob Gourley Threats to our information are not only from malware or brute force hacks or social engineering. Criminals are motivated to look for every advantage. Sometimes we read about very sophisticated attacks against hardware that require advanced engineering. But attacks don’t really have ...

By Bob Gourley Threats to our information are not only from malware or brute force hacks or social engineering. Criminals are motivated to look for every advantage. Sometimes we read about very sophisticated attacks against hardware that require advanced engineering. But attacks don’t really have ...

By ShannonPerry We’ve written plenty about data breaches. Within the last year, valuable data has been stolen from Target, the University of Maryland at College Park, the California Department of Motor Vehicles, and the Internal Revenue Service. Retailers and reputations have suffered immensely fr...

Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: An anonymous official confirmed that United States and Israel jointly developed the Flame spying malware. More here. The Veterans Affairs Department would need a staff of 4,000 to scan and digitize its backlogged paper rec...

Recently, I had the opportunity to participate in The Atlantic Council’s Young Professionals in Cyber Policy discussion with thinkers from industry, academia, think tanks, and policy. After speaking with Karl Grindal of the Cyber Conflict Studies Association, I realized that part of the reason f...

via news.cnet.com Sony acknowledged today that the personal information of its PlayStation Network customers has been compromised. The company posted an update on its blog today warning its more than 70 million customers that their personal information, including customer names, addresses, e-mail ad...